displaying special characters such as tilde's from facebook friends names

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi guys,

Im displaying the names from my facebook friends. Everything works fine except when facebook names have special characters, as nothing gets displayed in those cases.

I’m using this line of code to display the names.

text = display.newRetinaText( data[event.index].name, 10, 0, "Helvetica-Bold", 18 )

I would appreciate some ideas on how to work this out. :slight_smile: thanks [import]uid: 74667 topic_id: 29682 reply_id: 329682[/import]

#2

I made a print to the console and the international characters are printed like this. seems like an encoding UTF-8 issue…

Armando Ram?rez
Huitr?n G?mez [import]uid: 74667 topic_id: 29682 reply_id: 119229[/import]